Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Letter to Zhongfen Mingben
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)

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Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札),

ca. 1310–ca. 1330

Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫, 1254–1322
Zhao Youxi 趙由晳, active late 13th - early 14th century
Chinese
Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368
1998-54 a-f
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More Context

a. Chao Meng-fu, Letter to Chung-feng Ming-pen, 1321, 29.5 x 50.2 cm. b. Chao Meng-fu, Letter to Shu Chi-po, after 1310, 27.7 x 49.6 cm. c. Kuan Tao-sheng (1262-1319; wife), author, and Chao Meng-fu, calligrapher, Letter to a Relative, after 1310, 29.0 x 49.7 cm. d. Chao Yung (1290-ca. 1362; son), Letter to Kao Su, after 1330, 32.6 x 61.8 cm. e. Chao Yung, Letter to Kao Su, after 1330, 30.0 x 51.9 cm. f. Chao Yu-hsi (fl. late 13th-early 14th century; daughter), Letter to Ch'iang Wen-shih, 1319, 28.3 x 42.4 cm.

Information

Title
Collected Letters of the Zhao Mengfu Family (Zhao shi yimen he zha 趙氏一門合札)
Dates

ca. 1310–ca. 1330

Maker
Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫
Zhao Youxi 趙由晳
Medium
Six letters mounted as handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Mount: 35 x 525 cm. (13 3/4 x 206 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-54 a-f
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
[see individual records]
Culture
Chinese
Period
Yüan
Type
handscrolls, letters (correspondence), calligraphy (visual work), calligraphy (writing)
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink
Subject
families

–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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